Car-coupling



(No Model.)

Patented July 27,1897.

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JOHN WV. PAISLEY, OF EAST RANDOLPH, NEWr YORK.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent No. 587,229, dated J' uly27, 1897. Application lecl October 8, 1896. Serial No. 608,260.(No-Vmoflel.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:-

` Beit known that I, JOHN W. PAISLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at East Randolph, in the county of Oattaraugus and State of NewYork, have invented a new and useful Oar-Coupling, of which thefollowingl is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in car-couplings.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofpin-and-link carcouplings and to provide simple and inexpensive devicesadapted to be readily applied to a car and capable of enabling a link tobe guided into the mouth of a draw-head without going between cars.

A further object of the invention is to enable the operation ofuncoupling to be readily performed from the tops and sides of carswithout going between them. i

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a car-couplingconstructed in accordance with this invention and shown applied to acar, the link-guider being in position for directing the link into thedraw-head. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional View. Fig. 3 is atransverse sectional view. Fig. 4c is a detail perspective view of thelink-guider.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

1 designates a draw-head provided with a coupling-pin perforation andadapted to receive a link 2, which is engaged by a coupling-pin 3 in theusual manner. The coupling-pin is provided at its top with a threadedextension 4, which passes through a slot 5 of a horizontal arm .6 of avertical1y=movable operating-rod 7, and which is secured to the latterby a nut arranged on the upper face of the horizontal arm. Thevertically-movable rod 7, which extends to the top of a car 8, ismounted in suitable guides 9, such as staples or the like, and it isangularly bent at a point above the horizontal arm 6, which is locateddirectly above the draw-head. The slot of the horizontal arm of the rod7, which may be either tubular or solid, permits the necessary play ofthe draw-head, and when the rod '7, which is provided at its upper endwith a suitable handle, is lifted the coupling-pin is raised todisengage it from the link.

The operation of uncoupling is performed from the sides of the car by apair of operatin g-levers 10, fulcrumed intermediate of their ends insuitable brackets 11 and having their inner :terminals located beneaththe angularly-bent lower portion of the rod 7, whereby when either ofthe levers 10 is operated the rod 7 willbe lifted to raise thecouplingpin. The levers 10, which are -adapted'to be operatedindependently of each other, are provided intermediate of their endswith longitudinal slots 12, receiving the pivots 13 and permitting thelevers 10 to be shifted longitudinally a limited distance in Order tovary the leverage and enable the operation of uncoupling to be easilyperformed from the sides of the car.

A link is directed into the mouth of the draw-head during the operationof coupling by a link-guider 14, consisting of a substantiallywedge-shaped or triangular head and al pair of inwardly or rearwardlyextending shanksor bars 15. The link-guider, which is located beneaththe draw-head, presents an upper inclined face which is'slightly roundedand which is adapted, when the link-guider is raised, as illustrated inFig. 1 of the accompanying drawings, vto form an incline immediately infront and below the draw-head to direct a link into the same. The rearor inner ends of the Shanks or bars 15 are provided with eyes formed bybending the terminals of the shanks or bars upward and perforating thesame, and these eyes are arranged on longitudinal guides 16, arrangedbeneath the car and permitting the link-guider alimited longitudinalmovement to prevent it from being injured during the operation ofcoupling. The guides consist of a pair of horizontal rods having theirterminals bent upward and forming Shanks which are secured to thedraft-timbers of the car. The sides of the link guider are adj ustablyconnected by chains 17 with the rod 7, whereby when the coupling-pin israised the link-guider will be IOO brought simultaneously in positionfor directterminals of the chains, which may, if desired, consist of asingle chain, are secured by a fastening device to the arm of the rod 7,and the lower terminals of the chains' are adjustably secured to theside bars or shanks of the linkguider by snap-hooks 18. The Weight ofthe link-guider operates to hold the conplingpin in position and toprevent it from being accidentally thrown out of the coupling-pinperforation of the draw-head during transit.

It will be seen that the car-coupling is eX- ceedingly simple andinexpensive in construetion, that it is positive and reliable inoperation, and that it will enable cars to be uncoupled from their topsand sides without going between them.

It will also be seen thata link may be guided into the mouth of adraw-head from the top and sides of the car, thereby obviating thenecessity of a person going between cars during the operation ofcoupling.

That I claim isl. In a car-coupling, the combination with a car, of adraw-head provided with a coupling-pin, longitudinal guides rigidlymounted beneath the car, a link-guider provided with a pair of bars orShanks slidingly connected with said guides and also adapted to swingupward and downward, operating mechanism connecting with thecoupling-pin, and chains depending at opposite sides of the draw-headand connecting the arms or Shanks with the couplingpin, whereby when thelatter is raised, the link-guider will be lifted to a position at thefront of the draw-head, substantially as described.

2. In a car-coupling, the combination of a car, a draw-head providedwith a couplingpin, a vertically-movable rod having its lower portionangularly bent and provided with a horizontal arm loosely connected Withthe coupling-pin, guides arranged beneath the car and disposedlongitudinally thereof, a link-guider located beneath the draw-head andcomposed of a wedge-shaped head, and

a pair of bars or shanks mounted at their inner ends on the said guides,chains adjustably connecting the link-guider with the vertically-movable rod, and a pair of operatinglevers fulcrumed on the car,located at opposite sides thereof and adapted to engage the angularportion of the vertically movable rod, substantially as and for thepurpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

J OI-IN WV. PAISLEY.

Witnesses:

MELvIN O. PARKER, HENRY C. SEIL.

